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Re: hate to ask- compiling cygwin1.dll


Mark Paulus wrote:
> 
> I do believe that in general, you shouldn't compile cygwin.dll
> in the source directory.  

This isn't a "should", it's a "must".  If you try and so much as run
configure in the source directory, you get an uncompilable mess, even if
you do later try and configure into a separate build directory.

One speaks from experience.  :)
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